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cupcakes.

February is over… The first Sonoma County Restaurant Week has passed and Sift: a Cupcakery has opened just a block away from my office in downtown Santa Rosa.   The shortest month of the year had been one of my busiest months since I started working on my own. And it was amazing…. I have gone into [...]

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sonic.net’s twitter contest.

I posted a few months back about how I won 10lbs of bacon exclusively because of Twitter.  Well, today my biggest prize that I have won on Twitter was installed – The internet! A few weeks back I received a DM stating that I won the Sonic.net prize for their latest Twitter contest celebrating their 15th [...]

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social media classes in sonoma county.

If someone asked me at the age of eight what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have had one of three different responses: A lawyer, a teacher or the person who writes commercials.  The third dream of mine is the one that I ended up pursuing and even though my dream [...]

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customer service done right.

There has been a recent epidemic of blog postings that have been critical of the lack of customer service that a few wineries have provided, including two recent ones from me (here and here).  With the ever-expanding blog posts about everything from what people had for breakfast to the wine they drank before going to [...]

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why you should hire a freelancer.

I was just recently asked by a winemaker friend of mine if I have any marketing agency recommendations for him.  After he told me he was looking for an agency to create a print ad, my first question to him was why he wanted an agency to do this for him when it would be [...]

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social media can help sonoma county businesses through the downturn.

Yesterday two more stories were in the Press Democrat about Sonoma County businesses laying off people and cutting back on production.  Agilent Technologies and one of my favorite food brands, Amy’s Kitchen, both have been hit hard by the recession.  Both companies say they are cautiously optimistic about the future.  This [...]

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wine bloggers conference.

It is all about the First Annual Wine Blogging Conference this weekend. The entire Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa will be taken over by some of the best professional wine lushes in America. My dumb ass was too much of a procrastinator when it came to actually purchasing a ticket so I wasn’t [...]

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